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Re: how to delete a table?
Posted by: Jay Pipes
Date: June 29, 2005 09:32PM

Sorry, from your original post, it sounded like you were asking if you could delete a table, but not get rid of it's contents...which is impossbile.

Deleting a table from the database is known as DROPPING the table. In fact, when removing any object from the MySQL system (as opposed to DELETE records from a table object), you use the term DROP.

So,

DROP TABLE table_name;

removes a table.

DROP DATABASE db_name;

removes a database, and so on.

Jay Pipes
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